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Nyein_Chan at 12:34 PM JST - 15th May

Is Humanitarian Aid to Cyclone Victims Misappropriated in Burma?

The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune publishes the reports with the headlines “Aid Groups Say Myanmar Food Stolen by Military” and “Junta is stealing aid, relief groups assert” respectively on May 15 and May 14, 2008. [Their reports…

Posted in Red Cross: Up to 128,000 may have died in Myanmar cyclone at 12:34 PM JST - 15th May
Nyein_Chan at 11:06 AM JST - 15th May

The Burmese military government should thus stand by its four decisions and needs to do only one more decision to establish its historical legacy: take the risk and transfer the state power to a civilian president chosen by the majority of 664 members of parliament, 166 appointed and 498 elected…

Posted in Red Cross: Up to 128,000 may have died in Myanmar cyclone at 11:06 AM JST - 15th May
Nyein_Chan at 11:06 AM JST - 15th May

Four Right Choices of Burmese Military Government and ONE more to go

The current Burmese military government has made FOUR right decisions which will be remembered as corner stones of their legacy for 20 years in power.

The first is its decisions to get and maintain the cease-fire agreements with…

Posted in Red Cross: Up to 128,000 may have died in Myanmar cyclone at 11:06 AM JST - 15th May
Nyein_Chan at 11:04 AM JST - 15th May

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has made several attempts to speak directly with General Than Shwe, Myanmar's military leader, UN spokeswoman Michele Montas said. She said Myanmar's mission to the UN gave Ban two phone numbers to call and no one has ever answered those phones. (Bill Varner, Bloomberg, UN's Ban…

Posted in Red Cross: Up to 128,000 may have died in Myanmar cyclone at 11:04 AM JST - 15th May
Nyein_Chan at 11:04 AM JST - 15th May

Foreign Ministers from 10 Southeast Asian nations will meet in Singapore on Monday to discuss ways to help Myanmar, following Cyclone Nargis which is feared to have killed as many as 100,000. (Saeed Azhar, Reuters, Singapore, edited by David Fox, May 15, 2008) In addition to the material and logistic…

Posted in Red Cross: Up to 128,000 may have died in Myanmar cyclone at 11:04 AM JST - 15th May
Nyein_Chan at 11:04 AM JST - 15th May

According to the official accounts -- as of 5:47 p.m. New York Time, May 13, 2008 – 38,491 people died and 27,838 people are missing. (An increase in the number of deaths without a decrease in the number of the missing from the earlier count indicates that some 4,000 people…

Posted in Red Cross: Up to 128,000 may have died in Myanmar cyclone at 11:04 AM JST - 15th May
Nyein_Chan at 06:50 AM JST - 10th May

Indonesian government accepted U.S aid during Tsunami because the former didn’t have any problem with the latter. On the other hand, U.S has a regime change (without using U.S military) policy according to David Steinberg, Burma expert at Georgetown University. On the other hand, the constitutional referendum is scheduled in…

Posted in U.N. halts aid to Myanmar after junta seizes supplies at 06:50 AM JST - 10th May
Nyein_Chan at 06:48 AM JST - 10th May

beavis wrote at 05:12 AM JST - 10th May

Nyein -With the lack of potable water, I don't think rice is a good idea as an immediate sustenance . I'd personally rather choke down one of the biscuits if my life depended on it.

We the Burmese don’t eat biscuits…

Posted in U.N. halts aid to Myanmar after junta seizes supplies at 06:48 AM JST - 10th May
Nyein_Chan at 06:46 AM JST - 10th May

Why doesn’t the Burmese government – or the Referendum Commission in particular – want to postpone the referendum in the entire country?

One possible reason is that the Cyclone hit very badly only in several regions of the country and the referendum could go on as scheduled in the rest…

Posted in U.N. halts aid to Myanmar after junta seizes supplies at 06:46 AM JST - 10th May
Nyein_Chan at 06:45 AM JST - 10th May

A well-orchestrated U.S military campaign of intimidation (if not invasion) is well on its way. Washington Post reports that “Three or four [war]ships began a five-day journey to a location off Burma to be available to offer aid.” (Amy Kazmin, Colum Lynch and Howard Schneider, Burma Seizes U.N. Food Deliveries,…

Posted in U.N. halts aid to Myanmar after junta seizes supplies at 06:45 AM JST - 10th May